This is Charlotte.  Yesterday was awesome! We went to these awesome temples. They were huge. We were allowed to walk inside them and explore. The temples were beautiful! The people who worked on them back then were very talented. The detail was amazing, the art was beautiful, everything was perfect.  Some of the temples that…… Continue reading Temples!

Amazing cooking class today at the Sojourn hotel in rural Siem Reap.  Amok snake fish curry: Lemon grass, turmeric, Amok leaves, lime leaf, shrimp paste, shallot, garlic, salt, snake fish, coconut milk, water, stock, lots of chopping! Palm sugar dumplings: Rice flour, gluten, crystallized palm sugar, boiling water: Green mango salad: Green mango, sliced carrots,…… Continue reading Cambodian cooking class

Amazing first day visiting amazing human achievements. Everything we have read about the majesty and wonder of the temples is true. Ancient cities constructed in jungles where the source of the main building materials (sandstone, laterite,and granite) was over 50km away. Structures that were constructed over 1000 years ago that reach 50m+ above ground level.…… Continue reading Visiting the temples of Angkor – Day 1

Someone likes the camera… there were many doorways discovered on day 1 of the visit. Not all pictures are people published here. 

This is Ruby here to tell you all about the airplane ride.  The airplane ride was a little bit boring but it was OK they had T.V One flight was 17 hours. The second one was two hours. And last but not least the third ride was one hour.  On the airplane I watched several…… Continue reading All about the airplane ride

This is us enjoying the breeze on our first tuk tuk ride. A tuk tuk is a wagon pulled by a motorbike. Arden is sandwiched in for “safety”. 

This is us enjoying the breeze on our first tuk tuk ride. A tuk tuk is a wagon pulled by a motorbike. Arden is sandwiched in for “safety”. 

28 hours of travel later and we are one final leg away from the first immersion experience of our trip. Girls did amazing on the plane and in Hong Kong airport. They were wound up, exhausted, and crabby by the time we settled tonight. Hil had us booked in at a perfect airport hotel and…… Continue reading Safe and sound in bangkok

Thanks for the sleep sacks Grandma!

For the last year, as we have agonized over one life decision after another, packed box after box after box, pulled our kids out of school, and figured out how to hit the reset button and chart life’s next adventure, we have been continually bathed in the love of family and friends.  We started 2017…… Continue reading Privilege